{"id":56213,"date":"2015-04-02T08:30:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T08:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=21bac405c95db5465dcd6835a66f80f8"},"modified":"2015-04-02T08:30:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T08:30:20","slug":"news-story-kings-college-hospital-nhs-foundation-trust-agrees-action-to-improve-services-and-finances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=56213","title":{"rendered":"News story: King\u2019s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust agrees action to improve services and finances"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The regulator carried out an investigation at King\u2019s in March 2015 after the trust was unable to resolve long-standing problems at the Princess Royal University Hospital (<abbr title=\"Princess Royal University Hospital\">PRUH<\/abbr>), which it took over in October 2013. Although Monitor recognises that King\u2019s has made progress in improving services at the <abbr title=\"Princess Royal University Hospital\">PRUH<\/abbr>, this has not been sufficient, as it has become clear the challenge is greater than initially anticipated.<\/p>\n<p>Following the investigation, Monitor has agreed with King\u2019s that the trust will: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>develop and implement an effective short-term recovery plan to deliver the required improvements at the <abbr title=\"Princess Royal University Hospital\">PRUH<\/abbr> that King\u2019s planned to make when it took over the hospital<\/li>\n<li>develop and implement a longer-term plan by working closely with other national and local health care organisations (including NHS England and local commissioners) to ensure patient services are improved, and also provided in a sustainable way for the future<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We will closely monitor the trust\u2019s progress in making the required improvements and will take further action if required.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trust will take steps to reduce waiting times for patients and improve its financial position, following an investigation by Monitor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}